That candid interview with Napoles

If I were Lorna Kapunan, I would whack my client, Janet Lim-Napoles, on the head for messing up during an interview with Inquirer editors, columnists and reporters.

The transcript of the whole interview has been made into a series on this paper’s front page.

In that interview, Napoles was like a child trying to lie her way through and getting trapped in her own web of lies.

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Kapunan, who has threatened to file libel cases against Inquirer editors, reporters and columnists for writing about her client, must be pulling her hair in frustration while she was reading the interview.

The lawyer said what had been written about Napoles were all lies.

Napoles has been accused by her former employees of stealing from the government P10 billion worth of pork barrel funds.

I was laughing like a mental patient while I read yesterday’s (Monday’s) installment of the interview.

(I missed last Sunday’s interview, the first of a series, because I was in my farm in Puerto Princesa City.)

I thought to myself, “Why did Kapunan allow Napoles to be interviewed alone by the Inquirer knowing that her lies would be discovered?”

How could she now convince the public and the courts that her client was just a victim of bad publicity?

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There were many portions in that interview when Napoles was caught lying through her teeth as she denied that she had anything to do with the alleged P10-billion scam.

One of the most telling was when Joey Nolasco, Inquirer managing editor, asked Napoles to talk about the inaccuracies she found in the reporters’ stories on the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam.